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Catfish

In this tale of electronic attraction, love, deceit and forgiveness, the dark reality of how far one woman was willing to go to soothe her emotional aches and pains is unearthed, and CATFISH asks the question: what exactly can we trust in this age of virtual connections?

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“The fabricated life stories and photographs that they cobble together online often contain the experiences, friends, resumes and job titles that they wish were their own, providing a complete window into how these scammers want the world to see them – and how far they fall from those ideals.” – Read the full article on “Catfishing” here.

Can You Believe This?

That’s what New York Magazine thinks you’ll be asking yourself after seeing the mind-blowing twists in this doc.

“CATFISH’S intricate twists won’t be revealed here—but suffice it to say that Megan is too good to be true. Plenty of people think the film may be, too. Nev and Rel have lately found themselves defending their work—and that year in Nev’s life—against skeptics who believe that his experience was planned or even flat-out fabricated.”

The World Where You Aren’t What You Post

“‘The Social Network’ is about origins, while ‘Catfish,’ at once narrower and more universal in implication, is about consequences. Mr. Zuckerberg may be the genius who invented Facebook and cashed in on its success, but many of the rest of us live, at least some of the time, in the world he made, and on the evidence of ‘Catfish,’ it can be a pretty creepy place.”

Virtual vs. in Real Life: The Value of Relationship Perspective

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